Save the World with the Written Word
“There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.”
— Napolean Bonaparte
Fellow writer,
Welcome. Welcome to one of the greatest organizations on the planet (once we colonize Mars, it’ll be the greatest organization on that planet).
You’ve joined a group of influential, motivated, and creative individuals whose literary morals persuade them to spend their time and talents improving the world.
Thanks for your passion and dedication!
This manual is to serve as a guide when you’re out in the field, saving the world with your pen and you either don’t know what to write or have lost sight of why you write. It’s motivation more than instruction, but there’s some instruction as well.
The fascinating thing is you don’t often wonder what to write. That part is inside of you and usually comes out in heaping portions.
Sure you may not know how to write it, and you may not feel confident that what you feel you should write is the right thing. But deep inside, you know what to write.
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them.”
— Neil Gaiman
It probably tries to bubble out of you more than your loved ones or coworkers care for, and it probably burns as you swallow it back down.
But it’s there and it’s undeniable.
No, what you struggle with on a daily basis is most likely the why. Because if you’re anything like all the other writers in the world, you fear staring at a blank page, and yet you’ve done it so many times.
So much so that you don’t even stare at blank pages anymore because you don’t pull open your laptop or pull out your writing pad as much as you should because you fear that nothing of worth will get written.
And because you don’t start writing as much as you know you should write, you beat yourself up and tell yourself that maybe you’re not a writer, maybe you’re not cut out to be what C. S. Lewis or Dale Carnegie were.
And that’s where SDF comes in. We know you’re meant to be every bit as powerful of a writer as C. S. Lewis and one of the things we’re best at is motivating you to keep putting words to paper (or screen).
Because here’s the real secret. Being a writer isn’t a power that you’re born with. It’s just like mastering the piano.
If you want to make people cry with your beautiful music on a piano, then you have to practice for thousands of hours. Some will say 10,000 hours to master it. At 10 hours/week that’s about 19 years.
And by the same token, if you want to make people cry (or laugh) with your writing, you have to put in the time. Write the words, over and over and over until you master them. Write millions of them.
That’s how you serve the world. That’s how you improve humanity.
I’d argue that millions of words coming from your heart is the most powerful tool humanity has to make improvements.
“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”
— James Madison
Write millions of words. Save the world.
It’s simple, but so hard.
We’ve been a secret organization for a long time, but we’re out in public now. Learn about us. If you write, join us.
